In Theaters and Digital

Saipan. Google it. The place is a dream. The ocean is the lightest color of blue and the island is a beautiful oasis of sun-drenched highs. Off the coastline of Japan, this place is a paradise for those who don’t realize the secrets its trappings hide. And the five fools headlining this ...

To this day, there remains something insanely special about director Brian De Palma’s Carrie.  It is based on the once-discarded novel by Stephen King, but was painstakingly adapted for the screen by Lawrence D. Cohen.  Cohen got everything about King’s first novel right  ...

This reviewer has been around the block for over ten years. In that time nothing had been more irksome to me than a studio announcing a grand plan for multiple movies before the first one has even left the gate. I have always felt—and for the most part still do—that is pure ...

There’s a great movie to be made about a woman’s daily struggles with insecurity, negative body image, and low self-esteem, especially in today’s post-revelatory era of the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements. And while co-writers/co-directors Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein ...

Absolutely insanity. Who knew that a trip to Burning Man in Black Rock City could be so (topless and) EVIL? Dumb question, I know, but – thanks to writer/director Rolfe Kanefsky (Dead Scared) – we don’t have to wonder for very long and what a strange and savage AND SEXY  ...

Just how dangerous was the city of Beirut back in 1982? Dangerous enough that hotel guests were often asked in jest, “Artillery side or car-bomb side?” when checking in for a stay in the civil-war-ravaged city. By the early ‘80s, the city had become a shell of its once-thriving self due  ...

I Kill Giants now sits at the very top of my favorite films (so far) released this year. I doubt I will be forgetting it or its imaginative landscape by December when voting season rolls around. This magical movie is so much more than words could ever express. Please ...

Something happened at my screening of Love, Simon that I’ve not experienced in a theater in quite some time… if ever. And it was beautiful. As the identity of the titular character’s secret crush was revealed to the audience near the end of the film, the entire theater burst into ...

“But does anybody have any weed, though,” the hot lesbian redhead asks about 20-minutes into this low-budget horror flick. She’s being helpful, Boils and Ghouls, as three or four joints and a few beers are pretty much mandatory in appreciating this regional shocker from ...

Gringo stars Thandie Newton, David Oyelowo, Joel Edgerton, Sharlto Copley, Charlize Theron, Amanda Seyfried, and many others. Very rarely does such a star-studded cast come together in a single film. Even more rarely does such a star-studded cast fail so miserably to breathe ...